And for links we couldn't get taken down, I always knew we had the disavow tool as a last resort. He explained the full story, including how we found the links, how his vendor set them up, how we went about removing them, and then how we used the...
There's good info about the disavow tool and reconsideration requests, which are again two topics that are greatly argued about and potentially misunderstood. Many links can get you penalized, and having a collection of really crappy links pointing...
Lutz is claimed to have said “I would concentrate on the links reported in the Webmaster Tools on Google” To put this in context, Lutz was purportedly addressing a question about the disavow links tool, so we’ll begin at Google Webmaster Tools:
If you can't get them removed, then use the Google Disavow Tool to request that they be ignored by Google. For those who want to debate the merits of this tool, we have used it, and it works like a champ.
Since announcing the disavow tool in October 2012, Google hasn’t given much insight regarding how to properly identify links that should be disavowed, leaving webmasters and SEO professionals to use their best judgment.
An article such as this could go on and on, but if you would like to know more about the dirty details regarding what to do next and the disavow tool, leave a comment about which link audit topic you want to learn more about.
This is why SEO professionals greeted Google's Distinguished Enginner Matt Cutts with cheers as he announced the release of the Disavow Links tool, which allows webmasters to ask Google not to take certain links into account when assessing your site.
Simply downloading your backlinks from GWT, then uploading some or all of them to the Disavow Links Tool is not a solution. Finally, let another week pass and any links still remaining will be sent to Google via the “Disavow Links tool.
The disavow tool lets us sever our relationships with all of those links we shouldn’t have gotten in the first place. But then Google gave us the disavow tool. You can use some link reports and tools that will "grade" or "evaluate" your links based...
Google and Bing then introduced “Disavow Links” tools into their Webmaster Tools sets. Disavow However, the reality is that Google once again has forced the hand of many SEOs and in particular tool providers.
New concepts like "AuthorRank," "Link Disavow Tool," and "Social Signals vs. Most link building campaigns consist of building or acquiring contextual links. Outreach activities required to obtain valuable links from relevant, high-authority sites...
When the news broke about Google's new disavow functionality, Simon Penson wrote a great piece on this site about it and it in October. This was big news just like the disavow. Bing also has a great keyword research tool.
In one recently well-known case a gentleman received a backlinks penalty, so he used the new disavow tool to disavow all his links and start fresh. Use this tool to see what Google’s spider is seeing.
These are the people we must disavow. Sites, providers, and tool creators may suffer the wrath. Provide bad links or purchase bad links or the bad link writer? As so many of us know, you can no longer just optimize titles, descriptions, and some...
Last week’s big announcement at Pubcon about Google’s Disavow Links tool (which comes several months after Bing launched their own version of the tool) was pretty hot news that set Twitter on fire. Google could definitely use the disavow tool as a...
The announcement that Google had created and launched a Disavow Links Tool to allow people to simply “delete” spammy backlinks has been met with much fanfare as the “answer” to the backlink profile problem.
The long-awaited Google Disavow Links Tool is now available. Cutts first mentioned the impending arrival of the Disavow Links tool in June. Bing's Disavow Links tool launched in July. To disavow links, all you have to do is upload a text file, with...
To help fix this problem, Bing Webmaster Tools has a Disavow Links Tool (and Google is reportedly working on adopting something similar). Again, you can feel comfortable ignoring this tool unless you see a sudden influx of low quality links.
Less than a month later, a new tool appeared, allowing site owners to disavow links. Only two months ago, a redesigned Bing Webmaster Tools brought new graphs, reports, and tools. Still making moves, this week, Bing announced a change to how it...
Disavow Links You can click down through the folders and get the data just for that section, which is a valuable tool for a site that segments content on a folder basis rather than a subdomain basis. If you’re using structured markup (Microformats...
